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21. Add MS 89230/3/12

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Title:
Draft excerpt from The Life of Sir Albert Hastings Markham
Scope & Content:
Typescript draft of ME and FA Markham, The Life of Sir Albert Hastings Markham (Cambridge University Press, 1927). The section describes the events surrounding the sinking of the Victoria, and details the manoeuvres of the fleet, and the subsequent court marshall upon return to Britain. In the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 file

22. Add MS 89230/3/10

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Title:
HMS Trafalgar Volume Two; plus Camperdown and Nile
Scope & Content:
Continuation of Markham's journal documenting his time as Rear Admiral and second-in-command in the Mediterranean. It opens with volume four of Markham's journal on board the Trafalgar, with entries from 25 January 1893 to 24 May. On 25 May Markham transferred his flag to HMS Camperdown. During ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1893-May 1894
Extent:
1 volume, plus 12 folios

23. Add MS 89230/1/3

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Title:
Journal of the Isbjörn voyage along the west coast of Novaya Zemlya
Scope & Content:
Journal by Captain Markham of his time aboard the Norwegian cutter Isbjörn (referred to as Isbjörnen by Markham throughout the volume) under Sir Henry Gore Booth, describing the voyage which took in the west coast of Novaya Zemlya, the Matyushin Shar, the Kara Sea, and a northward push in the ic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879
Extent:
1 volume, plus inserts (289 folios)

24. Add MS 89230/1/1

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Title:
Whaling cruise journal, on board the Arctic
Scope & Content:
Manuscript journal of Albert Markham's first Arctic voyage, made as second mate in the Dundee steam whaler Arctic, captained by William Adams. Markham accepted the position in order to gain experience of Arctic navigation, to witness methods of handling steam vessels in ice, and to collect infor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1873
Extent:
1 volume, plus 2 folio insert

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Title:
Hydra voyage journal, plus tour of Brittany and Holland
Scope & Content:
Manuscript journal kept by Markham as Commander of the Hydra, on manoeuvres in the Kara sea during the Russo-Turkish War (1878). The first journal entry is dated 7 May; the last 8 November. The Hydra was put out of commission on 23 August, and the entries from 13th September describe Markham's t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 volume, plus inserts